| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Phillip Hamilton. The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752–1830. (Jeffersonian America.) Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2003. Pp. xi, 250. $35.00.

Historians have long debated the nature of the American Revolution. Did it bring about substantive social change, or was it merely a war for independence? In this well-written and engaging book, Phillip Hamilton tells the tale of an elite family in transition as a way to illuminate the economic and social changes of the revolutionary period, particularly in the South. Thus Hamilton places his work squarely in the revolution-as-a-radical-movement camp. How, he asks, did the Virginia gentry deal with "the evaporation of their power" (p. 4) as a result of the revolution, and why did they become increasingly conservative in the early national period? In the process of answering these questions, Hamilton chronicles the inward turn of elite families like the Tuckers in the revolutionary era as the importance of larger kin networks declined, economic changes took men away from home, and women became homemakers charged with creating a safe haven from the outside world. The book focuses on two generations of Tuckers: St. George Tucker (1752–1827), the well-known Virginia jurist, and his offspring.

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